Removing blink?!? Is this for real?

Blink is one of the things that makes mages who they are. Its the core soul of the class.
Removing blink and replacing it with a rogue sprint copy is just bad.
It isnt only a different way of movement, it will change so much more:
You wont be able to sqeese out that extra dmg before you need to move in/out from somewhere.
You wont be able to blink to not get fall dmg.
You wont be able to instantly get back after a knockback or something like that.

I hate this homogenisation. =/
Anyone else feel this way?

Edit: Ok I had probably missunderstood the patchnotes. =) But keep the discussion about this change to the blazing speed talent.. Is it good or bad?

Glyph of Blink will now increase the movement speed bonus provided by Blazing Speed's by an additional 50%.
Blazing Speed can now be triggered at will, provides root/stun immunity, and has a 15sec cooldown (down from 25). This ability replaces Blink.

Blink is not being removed. If you decide to take blazing speed as your talent, it will replace blink.

Blazing Speed can now be triggered at will, provides root/stun immunity, and has a 15sec cooldown (down from 25). This ability replaces Blink.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember Blizz stating that Blazing speed wasn't a popular choice and that they were going to try and make it more appealing. Now, I'm not a masterful Mage by any stretch of the imagination, but wouldn't this change make blazing speed LESS appealing? It is nearly identical to blink in terms of breaking CC and it also has the same CD. Why would anyone take this instead of one of the other two talents? This feels like it would be a glyph slot if anything. I mean, I suppose if glyphed, you could travel a greater distance than you can with blink, but still. Can some explain this?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember Blizz stating that Blazing speed wasn't a popular choice and that they were going to try and make it more appealing. Now, I'm not a masterful Mage by any stretch of the imagination, but wouldn't this change make blazing speed LESS appealing? It is nearly identical to blink in terms of breaking CC and it also has the same CD. Why would anyone take this instead of one of the other two talents? This feels like it would be a glyph slot if anything. I mean, I suppose if glyphed, you could travel a greater distance than you can with blink, but still. Can some explain this?

Well 1 would think so, but as it seems that only thing blizzard seems to have a clue abt when it comes to mages is PvP. Its an OK situational talent for pvp and depends on the level you play, it might get used even, but in PvE.. Oh my

Blazing Speed can now be triggered at will, provides root/stun immunity, and has a 15sec cooldown (down from 25). This ability replaces Blink.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember Blizz stating that Blazing speed wasn't a popular choice and that they were going to try and make it more appealing. Now, I'm not a masterful Mage by any stretch of the imagination, but wouldn't this change make blazing speed LESS appealing? It is nearly identical to blink in terms of breaking CC and it also has the same CD. Why would anyone take this instead of one of the other two talents? This feels like it would be a glyph slot if anything. I mean, I suppose if glyphed, you could travel a greater distance than you can with blink, but still. Can some explain this?

Without glyph blazing speed takes you a small distance further than blink, like 5 yards. The glyph doesn't increase that gap very much, they both take you like 5 yards further with glyph.

Originally Posted by kbarh

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Then it seems to me that this talent would be even less attractive than before. Having an extra escape mechanism versus an extra 5 yards would be much more beneficial. I wish they would just make every change they are proposing other than replacing blink.

Makes them immune to roots/stuns for a short period, or while the ability is active... don't know how long it is, but that is pretty damn good in most PvP situations. Both work well for PvP, or atleast I'm assuming that, but only blink works for PvE... considering you want to spend less time running so you can spend more time casting and blink is just the right distance to get out of most PvE situations. Don't know why I bother talking about PvP, it's so dead.

I don't see any mages picking this talent if they go through with it replacing blink. Why? because all this talent does is replace blink with a spell that isn't on the GCD and gives you slightly more control of where it brings you at the cost of having your character actually move through the area not allowing you to skip past mechanics. If you don't take this talent you are rewarded with Temporal shield which doesn't cost a GCD and is very potent for many raid fights with spike damage, or Ice Barrier which can compensate for poor healing output.
I like blazing speed as it is now, I actually prefer having it if I know healers wont be struggling with the fight just so I can get back onto my RoP fast and turret more when blink happens to be on CD.